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jasper & banff national park / canada

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I know: momentary weather is not the climate but all canadians confirmed, these temperatures are not normal. we looked at melting glaciers while having about 30 degrees celcius (90 degrees fahrenheit). The nature on icefield parkway through the jasper and banff national park is spectaculär and it should stay …

liard hot spring


Because of the weight, we haven´t installed a bathtube in our truck, and so the Liard Hot Springs was a welcome change to the shower. At the source the water is almost too hot for bathing but the natural pool offers also well feel temperature ranges. fantastic! Now I think again about a bathtube …

inland passage


What a panorama! For six hours we drove with the car ferry from Juneau, Alaska’s capital to Haines and then further on to Skagway. the trip cost us about 300 US $ of, and 7.2 million the landscape around it (and much, much more countryside beyond). On 18 October 1867 Russia sold Alaska for this sum to the United States. For this amount later on the Tsar certainly could hve bought some gorgeous Faberge Eggs.

icefall

watch a giant icefall at the sawyer glacier in alaska.

icefall / north sawyer glacier


If you want to wrest something positive about  the “global warming”, then it is such a spectacle …

sawyer glaciers



a 10 hours boot trip took us from juneau to the sawyer glaciers. attached you will find some pictures.

salmon glacier


To get to the Salmon Glacier, you have to travel from Stewart , canada to Hyder , usa (no border controls!), From there you can not go wrong because there is only one road that leads to soon to an off-road gravelroad. Without realizing you then returne to canada and after 20kms the glacier comes into view. We were lucky, just a few days earlier the snow was removed from the road and we could go up all the way to the viewpoint. Phantastic and we were just by our own. even no mosquitos up here. Great.